Epilepsy and intensive care monitoring : principles and practice

Contents: Patient evaluation and selection for routine and invasive epilepsy monitoring / Katherine H. Noe and Gregory D. Cascino -- Continuous EEG in the intensive care unit : indications and procedures / Shanna K. Patterson, Lewis L. Kull, and Lawrence J. Hirsch -- Epilepsy monitoring unit pediatric and adult management / Jeffrey Ronald Buchhalter -- EMU design and guidelines / Thaddeus S. Walczak and Robert J. Gumnit -- Administrative considerations in epilepsy and ICU monitoring : coding and diagnostic classification / Mark R. Nuwer, Paul Vespa, and Lara M. Schrader -- EEG localization and interpretation / Bruce J. Fisch and Jose A. Padin-Rosado -- Computerized signal analysis and event detection / Jean Gotman -- Special considerations in pediatric monitoring / Kristen L. Park and Douglas R. Nordli, Jr. -- Seizure classification in epilepsy monitoring / Stephan U. Schuele, Adriana C. Bermeo, and Hans O. Lüders -- Epilepsy syndromes / Edward C. Mader, Jr. and Piotr W. Olejniczak -- Neurologic and cardiovascular disorders that resemble seizures / Megan F. Selvitelli, Trudy Pang, and Donald L. Schomer -- Sleep disorders that resemble seizures / Bradley V. Vaughn and Albert R. Hinn -- Psychiatric disorders that resemble seizures / Steven C. Schachter -- Diagnostic and localizing behavioral features of epileptic seizures / Jason R. Soss, Isabella Ferando, and Jerome Engel, Jr. -- Diagnostic and localizing extracranial EEG features of epileptic seizures / Mark C. Spitz and Laura A. Strom -- Diagnostic and localizing intracranial EEG features of epileptic seizures / Michael R. Sperling, Michael Duchowny, and Ian O. Miller -- Intracranial stimulation / Tara L. Skarpass and Martha Morrell -- Events that mimic seizures during ICU monitoring / Nishi Rampal and Lawrence J. Hirsch -- Convulsive seizures and status epilepticus / Christopher Todd Anderson and Robert S. Fisher -- Nonconvulsive seizures and status epilepticus / Frank W. Drislane and Peter W. Kaplan -- Encephalopathy and prognosis in coma / Anne C. Van Cott and Richard P. Brenner -- Continuous EEG monitoring for the detection of seizures in traumatic brain injury : detecting and treating post-traumatic epilepsy / Paul Vespa -- Stroke and subarachnoid hemorrhage / Jan Classen and Lawrence J. Hirsch -- Neuroimaging localizing procedures / William H. Theodore and William D. Gaillard -- Language and memory testing / David W. Loring and Kimford J. Meador.